Paul Newman Quotes
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I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.
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Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.
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From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.
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I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.
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The only question I ever ask any woman is, 'what time is your husband coming home?'
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So you wound up with Apollo/If he's sometimes hard to swallow/Use this.
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I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.
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I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others; made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.
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The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.
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Admit it. I'm the best you ever seen, Fats. I'm the best there is. And even if you beat me, I'm still the best.
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In racing, the fastest person wins. It is very simple.
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If I ever feel like I’m doing something I’ve done before, I scrap it and start over again.
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I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance
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A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.
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I'm a great believer in luck and the extraordinary role that plays in all of our lives.
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If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
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It's been a privilege to be here.
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...." I was rather discouraged when I discovered that Paul and Hotch had no marketing survey, no business plan, no budget, no organized strategy for the introduction of the sauce. When asked about this lack of preparation, the haphazard nature of their business, Paul said, 'Me in this business is just part of life's great folly. Stay loose, men, keep 'em off balance.'"
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I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.
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You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you. You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.
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Winning isn't everything.... it's just all there is.
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I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor. You don't want any woman to look under the carpet because there's lots of flaws underneath. Joanne believes my character in a film we did together, "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" comes closest to who I really am. I personally don't think there's one character who comes close... but I learned a long time ago not to disagree on things that I don't have a solid opinion about.
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What we got here is a failure to communicate.
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Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.